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   Lili Saintcrow (lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 05:46:40 JST Lili Saintcrow

   Gotta love it when someone comes up with a specious "objection" that shows they clearly didn't read the book. Yup, that's an author's FAVOURITE thing.

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     Juliet E McKenna (julietemckenna@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 05:46:43 JST Juliet E McKenna

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     @lilithsaintcrow then there's the 'has read the book but discovered it wasn't the book they wanted you to write' moan... 🙄

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 05:46:46 JST Charlie Stross

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     @JulietEMcKenna @lilithsaintcrow … And also the one where they read the book that you wrote as a cautionary tale about not creating the Torment Nexus, and got the takeaway that creating the Torment Nexus was a really cool idea and they should totally form a start-up to do just that.

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     Lili Saintcrow (lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 05:46:49 JST Lili Saintcrow

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     @cstross “It is a fact generally known that any Torment Nexus a writer may devise is in want of a techbro jackass attempting to bring it reality-ward…” @JulietEMcKenna

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